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ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
Volume 79 Bloomington, Illinois 61701, Friday, October 27, 1972
Argus compendium of
Ogilvie, Walker views
see pages 6-7
Number 8
Eckley addresses Board
Dr. Russell Kirk
Kirk finds similarities
in president, emperor
by BEVERLY HALE
Staff Writer
Dr. Russell Kirk, essayist, columnist,
and critic, explained the conservative
view of the presidency in a speech
Wednesday in the Main Lounge.
Kirk is acquainted with many of the
political leaders of today and was able
to give his personal observations. "For-mer
President Lyndon Johnson,' he said,
"was bowed down under the weight of
his responsibility, overworked, and mel-ancholy,
with no good advisors to as-sist
him. President Nixon, however, is
normally leisurely, vigorous, cheerful,
and at ease. He is adaptable to change
and has an astute, direct personality."
NIXON HAS A CLOSE circle of advis-ors
upon whom he relies heavily. "The
cabinet heads," Kirk said, "have been
reduced to administrators of large de-partments
of the bureaucracy. They have
routine duties and are rarely seen by
Nixon. Their job is merely to carry out
Nixon's decisions, not make them."
Kirk compared the president with an
elected emperor. He is the ceremonial
head of state, prime minister, and com-mander-
in-chief, and therefore subject
to checks by the people, the Congress,
and the Courts.
IN KIRK'S OPINION, it is very likely
that Nixon will be re-elected because he
has been successful in his diplomacy and
pleased most of the Democrats as well
as many of the liberals. He has made
possible relations with China and Rus-sia
and has worked toward ending the
American involvement in Viet Nam.
According to Kirk, Nixon is probably
more popular today than Eisenhower
was. "He's the kind of president we're
probably going to see for a long time,
barring no unexpected events. The peo-ple
are able to see in him someone who
will stand for stability and prudence."
by DAVE GATHMAN
Editor-in-Chief
IWU's Board of Trustees has descen-ded
upon campus for its triennial
meeting, performed its business, and
swept out again, leaving in its wake a
complete set of freshly scoured Memor-ial
Center windows.
Among other activities, the 30-odd
trustees elected three new members (see
story page 2), approved budgets for the
present and upcoming school years,
consumed several Saga meals, and wit-nessed
a slide presentation by Associate
Professor of Religion Geoffrey Story
based on his travels in the Mediterrane-an.
ONE THIRD of the trustees come up
for reelection each year. Nine vacancies
are filled by vote of the remaining trus-tees
and three are elected by the United
Methodist Church.
Most trustees are business executives,
lawyers, academicians, and churchmen.
The board includes two housewives.
ALSO ATTENDING were Student Life
Committee members Darryl Deets, Gail
D)ixon, Barry Fletcher, Jeri Nichols, and
Valerie Yontz; Student Senate Vice-Pres-ident
Steve Pittman; Associate Profes-sor
of Music Education Richard Hish-man;
and Dr. Sammye Greer, assistant
professor of English.
For the first time in several years no
representative of the Argus was invited.
University President Robert Eckley re-ported
to the board that income for the
1971-72 school year sligthly exceeded
expenditures by a total of $6,259,428 to
$6,236,983. He predicted that this year's
budget will also prove a balanced one.
ECKLEY ALSO reported that the
"MSemester" program, which is geared
to involve housewives from Blooming-ton-
NormaL in Wesleyan classes, has
proven a success and will be continued
next semester.
The president also unveiled a plan
which would admit a small, carefully
selected group of high school seniors in
the fall of 1973. He said that the program
"provides a means of reducing the elaps-ed
time in school for able students with-out
deliberately foreshortening the vital
college years."
ECKLEY ADDED that the program
will enable IWU to pursue a philosophy
of education "recognizing individual dif-ferences
unfettered by age stereotypes."
He also pointed with pride to a success-ful
reduction in the attrition rate. While
total enrollment has risen only two per
cent in the last two years, the number
of juniors and seniors has risen 17 per
cent, according to Eckley.
IWU launched a project to reduce at-trition
two years ago and now requires
an exit interview with the Dean of Stu-dents
staff.
THE PRESIDENT'S annual report
showed that alumni giving rose almost
20 per cent during the last year, with a
record 2,527 alumni (22 per cent of the
total) contributing to the Alumni Fund.
Corporate gifts to the university in-creased
nine per cent, largely through
efforts of the IWU Associates in Bloom-ington-
Normal.
The university recently embarked on
a campaign to raise ten million dollars
and thereby increase the proportion of
operating expenses paid for by capital
investments rather than by tuition and
fees.
Senate revises election methods
Wesleyan students running for office
will no longer have to scrounge up 35
valid signatures for a petition.
Senate voted Sunday to revamp the
current Election Code. Under the new
provisions, candidates for office will
have only to sign a candidates' list at
the Main Desk.
ELECTIONS Committee Chairman
Nancy Travis contended that the peti-tions
have often been mishandled by
people at the Main Desk. She also said
that a monetary deposit is irrelevant
and said that it is impossible to check
out the legitimacy of each signature.
She recounted a case this year in
Students salute dads
The annual Dads' Day celebration will
bring an estimated 250 fathers to cam-pus
Saturday.
Festivities will begin with a registra-tion
and coffee hour at 9 a.m. in the
Dugout. The Phi Mu Alpha jazz ensem-ble,
featuring Kristie Nestler, will pro-vide
entertainment.
From 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. parents
will be able to "meet the professor,"
learning about their children's classes
and mentors of same.
Climaxing the event at 11:30 a.m. will
be the Dad's Association luncheon in the
fieldhouse. Dr. Leonard Lowe will give
the invocation and the Alpha Gamma
Delta Singers will provide entertain-ment.
Proceeds from the dinner will go to
pay tuition of students whose fathers
die while they are in school.
After the dinner, celebrants will retire
to the Wesleyan-Augustana football game
at 1:30 p.m. at the stadium. This will be
followed by open houses at Greek houses
and dormitories.
which one person took out class officer
petitions for three different people.
For general elections the candidate
lists will be made available two weeks
before the election and will be collected
one week later. For intrasenate elections
the lists will go out one week ahead of
time and be due two days before elec-tion.
IN OTHER business, senate unanimous-ly
approved the election of Dave Gath-man
as editor-in-chief of the Argus.
President Darryl Deets closed the
meeting by saying that "criticism of sen-ate
has become traditional, but most
critics are not taking a close look."
HE SAID that much of the problem
might be due to senators who have fall-en
out of touch with their constituency
and are not bringing in relevant mo-tions
for consideration.
The meeting was marked by a 35%
IWU lands Albatross
The Blackbook is no more.
Communications Commission approved
the literary magazine's name change to
"The Albatross" on Sunday.
Editor Gail Dixon explained that the
new name alludes to Samuel Coleridge's
"Ryme of the Ancient Mariner," in which
the albatross reminds an old sailor of
the sacredness of life and God's crea-tions.
Other names considered by the Black-book
staff, according to Ms. Dixon, were
"Lines" and "Tambre."
Ms. Dixon also announced that the
literary magazine staff has expanded and
that the Albatross will include graphic
art next issue. She said that the deadline
date for publication in the January is-sue
will be noon on Tuesday, Nov. 21.
rate of absences (senators are allowed
six absences each) and by exceptional
brevity (33 minutes).
Next week Deets will deliver the an-nual
State of the Senate Address.
Political work OK'd
IWU students are now free to get out
and campaign for the candidate of their
choice.
Dean of the University John Clark has
announced that students may take up to
two weeks leave while working for an
established political organization.
Participating students will be excused
from classes while they are gone but
must make up missed work upon their
return.
Dr. Royall Brandis, professor of eco-nomics
at the University of Illinois, will
speak at 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in the
Davidson Room on "unsolved problems"
and "ecology."
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ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
Volume 79 Bloomington, Illinois 61701, Friday, October 27, 1972
Argus compendium of
Ogilvie, Walker views
see pages 6-7
Number 8
Eckley addresses Board
Dr. Russell Kirk
Kirk finds similarities
in president, emperor
by BEVERLY HALE
Staff Writer
Dr. Russell Kirk, essayist, columnist,
and critic, explained the conservative
view of the presidency in a speech
Wednesday in the Main Lounge.
Kirk is acquainted with many of the
political leaders of today and was able
to give his personal observations. "For-mer
President Lyndon Johnson,' he said,
"was bowed down under the weight of
his responsibility, overworked, and mel-ancholy,
with no good advisors to as-sist
him. President Nixon, however, is
normally leisurely, vigorous, cheerful,
and at ease. He is adaptable to change
and has an astute, direct personality."
NIXON HAS A CLOSE circle of advis-ors
upon whom he relies heavily. "The
cabinet heads," Kirk said, "have been
reduced to administrators of large de-partments
of the bureaucracy. They have
routine duties and are rarely seen by
Nixon. Their job is merely to carry out
Nixon's decisions, not make them."
Kirk compared the president with an
elected emperor. He is the ceremonial
head of state, prime minister, and com-mander-
in-chief, and therefore subject
to checks by the people, the Congress,
and the Courts.
IN KIRK'S OPINION, it is very likely
that Nixon will be re-elected because he
has been successful in his diplomacy and
pleased most of the Democrats as well
as many of the liberals. He has made
possible relations with China and Rus-sia
and has worked toward ending the
American involvement in Viet Nam.
According to Kirk, Nixon is probably
more popular today than Eisenhower
was. "He's the kind of president we're
probably going to see for a long time,
barring no unexpected events. The peo-ple
are able to see in him someone who
will stand for stability and prudence."
by DAVE GATHMAN
Editor-in-Chief
IWU's Board of Trustees has descen-ded
upon campus for its triennial
meeting, performed its business, and
swept out again, leaving in its wake a
complete set of freshly scoured Memor-ial
Center windows.
Among other activities, the 30-odd
trustees elected three new members (see
story page 2), approved budgets for the
present and upcoming school years,
consumed several Saga meals, and wit-nessed
a slide presentation by Associate
Professor of Religion Geoffrey Story
based on his travels in the Mediterrane-an.
ONE THIRD of the trustees come up
for reelection each year. Nine vacancies
are filled by vote of the remaining trus-tees
and three are elected by the United
Methodist Church.
Most trustees are business executives,
lawyers, academicians, and churchmen.
The board includes two housewives.
ALSO ATTENDING were Student Life
Committee members Darryl Deets, Gail
D)ixon, Barry Fletcher, Jeri Nichols, and
Valerie Yontz; Student Senate Vice-Pres-ident
Steve Pittman; Associate Profes-sor
of Music Education Richard Hish-man;
and Dr. Sammye Greer, assistant
professor of English.
For the first time in several years no
representative of the Argus was invited.
University President Robert Eckley re-ported
to the board that income for the
1971-72 school year sligthly exceeded
expenditures by a total of $6,259,428 to
$6,236,983. He predicted that this year's
budget will also prove a balanced one.
ECKLEY ALSO reported that the
"MSemester" program, which is geared
to involve housewives from Blooming-ton-
NormaL in Wesleyan classes, has
proven a success and will be continued
next semester.
The president also unveiled a plan
which would admit a small, carefully
selected group of high school seniors in
the fall of 1973. He said that the program
"provides a means of reducing the elaps-ed
time in school for able students with-out
deliberately foreshortening the vital
college years."
ECKLEY ADDED that the program
will enable IWU to pursue a philosophy
of education "recognizing individual dif-ferences
unfettered by age stereotypes."
He also pointed with pride to a success-ful
reduction in the attrition rate. While
total enrollment has risen only two per
cent in the last two years, the number
of juniors and seniors has risen 17 per
cent, according to Eckley.
IWU launched a project to reduce at-trition
two years ago and now requires
an exit interview with the Dean of Stu-dents
staff.
THE PRESIDENT'S annual report
showed that alumni giving rose almost
20 per cent during the last year, with a
record 2,527 alumni (22 per cent of the
total) contributing to the Alumni Fund.
Corporate gifts to the university in-creased
nine per cent, largely through
efforts of the IWU Associates in Bloom-ington-
Normal.
The university recently embarked on
a campaign to raise ten million dollars
and thereby increase the proportion of
operating expenses paid for by capital
investments rather than by tuition and
fees.
Senate revises election methods
Wesleyan students running for office
will no longer have to scrounge up 35
valid signatures for a petition.
Senate voted Sunday to revamp the
current Election Code. Under the new
provisions, candidates for office will
have only to sign a candidates' list at
the Main Desk.
ELECTIONS Committee Chairman
Nancy Travis contended that the peti-tions
have often been mishandled by
people at the Main Desk. She also said
that a monetary deposit is irrelevant
and said that it is impossible to check
out the legitimacy of each signature.
She recounted a case this year in
Students salute dads
The annual Dads' Day celebration will
bring an estimated 250 fathers to cam-pus
Saturday.
Festivities will begin with a registra-tion
and coffee hour at 9 a.m. in the
Dugout. The Phi Mu Alpha jazz ensem-ble,
featuring Kristie Nestler, will pro-vide
entertainment.
From 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. parents
will be able to "meet the professor,"
learning about their children's classes
and mentors of same.
Climaxing the event at 11:30 a.m. will
be the Dad's Association luncheon in the
fieldhouse. Dr. Leonard Lowe will give
the invocation and the Alpha Gamma
Delta Singers will provide entertain-ment.
Proceeds from the dinner will go to
pay tuition of students whose fathers
die while they are in school.
After the dinner, celebrants will retire
to the Wesleyan-Augustana football game
at 1:30 p.m. at the stadium. This will be
followed by open houses at Greek houses
and dormitories.
which one person took out class officer
petitions for three different people.
For general elections the candidate
lists will be made available two weeks
before the election and will be collected
one week later. For intrasenate elections
the lists will go out one week ahead of
time and be due two days before elec-tion.
IN OTHER business, senate unanimous-ly
approved the election of Dave Gath-man
as editor-in-chief of the Argus.
President Darryl Deets closed the
meeting by saying that "criticism of sen-ate
has become traditional, but most
critics are not taking a close look."
HE SAID that much of the problem
might be due to senators who have fall-en
out of touch with their constituency
and are not bringing in relevant mo-tions
for consideration.
The meeting was marked by a 35%
IWU lands Albatross
The Blackbook is no more.
Communications Commission approved
the literary magazine's name change to
"The Albatross" on Sunday.
Editor Gail Dixon explained that the
new name alludes to Samuel Coleridge's
"Ryme of the Ancient Mariner," in which
the albatross reminds an old sailor of
the sacredness of life and God's crea-tions.
Other names considered by the Black-book
staff, according to Ms. Dixon, were
"Lines" and "Tambre."
Ms. Dixon also announced that the
literary magazine staff has expanded and
that the Albatross will include graphic
art next issue. She said that the deadline
date for publication in the January is-sue
will be noon on Tuesday, Nov. 21.
rate of absences (senators are allowed
six absences each) and by exceptional
brevity (33 minutes).
Next week Deets will deliver the an-nual
State of the Senate Address.
Political work OK'd
IWU students are now free to get out
and campaign for the candidate of their
choice.
Dean of the University John Clark has
announced that students may take up to
two weeks leave while working for an
established political organization.
Participating students will be excused
from classes while they are gone but
must make up missed work upon their
return.
Dr. Royall Brandis, professor of eco-nomics
at the University of Illinois, will
speak at 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in the
Davidson Room on "unsolved problems"
and "ecology."
__ __ __